slatey

How to use slatey in a sentence

• It's a roughish crossing at slatey Bar,' and he pointed towards the river, which we could plainly hear rushing over a rocky bed.

  Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

• And all the time those slatey ledges of water kept languidly lifting themselves and suddenly dropping, as if they were alive.

  The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland | J. Irwin Brown

• The poet's tomb was disappointing in its unlovely simplicity, its stern, slatey hue.

  Phantom Fortune, A Novel | M. E. Braddon

• Here is a stratum of coffee-coloured slatey substance in layers like those of the Wianamatta shale.

  The Jenolan Caves | Samuel Cook

• After a late fall of snow he beheld it wrapped in ermine, standing above mud-coloured water, against a light slatey sky.

  His Masterpiece | Emile Zola